Opera software has released a security update for Opera 12, Opera 12.18 is now available to download, if you’re using Opera 12, you’ll be automatically updated to this version and this is the last, stable presto-version for you guys. FYI, last update Opera 12.17, which was released two years back was also a security update, it has fixed the Heartbleed bug.
What’s new in Opera 12.18
“In order to make your browser, and its mail client, function well on the present-day web, we’ve made a few changes, with a focus on the security aspect. The most important change is the support for ECC cipher suites used in secure connections. Another addition is GCM. ” Opera’s employee, Tarquin Wilton-Jones said in a blog post.
“Opera 12 now supports the same set of ciphers as other modern browsers. We have seen that many domains are relying on ECC certificates, thus making Opera 12 unable to connect. Similarly most clients using TLS have deprecated RC4 from the list of secure ciphers. We have done the same in this update. There is a setting to turn it back on, in case you need it. Since more servers are supporting TLS 1.2, we have enabled that by default ” he added.
Tarquin also suggests Opera 12 users to upgrade from Windows XP SP1 and older to a newer Windows OS and then to the Opera 35.
You can download Opera 12.18 for Windows by visiting this link.
Are you still using Presto-based Opera version these days?
I still use the Presto engine. Haven’t jumped on the Chropera train yet. I already use Chromodo. If I wanted another Chrome clone, I would have installed the new version of Opera a long time ago. My thoughts: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Perhaps someday, but not today.
Lot of people are using Opera not only because of its own engine (we hate Google’s spyware inside their software), but because it is native x64 executable, unlike the new Chropera…
Some of us simply dislike the interface changes made in the downgrade to Chropera. I tried to find out if there is a way to back to that more familiar and preferred screen presence quite some time back and came up blank. This still works so I will stay with it. If needed, I have a copy of Exploder on both machines and use that…unhappily.
Auto-update? NOT! I choose what and when to update. I’m checking to see what folks think of this before I sacrifice my current install to a kludge.
Until the vivaldi.net browser (coded new by the old opera team) is not yet released as stable, Opera 12 is my main browser.
This Browser is the best and the fastest I have ever used, it should be maintained in order to provide an excellent independent alternative, to the data sipping parasitic mainstream choices which are offered to us. I resent giving away my data without having a choice in the matter, and watching major corporations collect it and profit from it. The inter-net was never originally intended for this purpose, but like all good things, it is inevitable that they become profit making enterprises, exploited by blood sucking vampires. You all know who they are !